Science from an Easy Chair
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- SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT
- PLATES
- I SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
- II UNIVERSITY TRAINING
- III DARWIN’S THEORY
- IV DARWIN’S DISCOVERIES
- V DARWIN’S THEORY UNSHAKEN
- VI METCHNIKOFF AND TOLSTOI
- VII THE LAND OF AZURE BLUE
- VIII FRESH-WATER JELLY-FISHES
- IX THE STORY OF THE COMMON EEL
- X MODERN HORSES AND THEIR ANCESTORS
- XI A RIVAL OF THE FABLED UPAS TREE
- XII POISONS AND STINGS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
- XIII THE DRAGON: A FANCY OR A FACT
- XIV OYSTERS
- XV MATERNAL CARE AND MOLLUSCS
- XVI THE HEART’S BEAT
- XVII SLEEP
- XVIII THE UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE OF LIVING THINGS
- XIX PROTOPLASM, LIFE AND DEATH
- XX CHEMISTRY AND PROTOPLASM
- XXI THE SIMPLEST LIVING THINGS
- XXII TADPOLES AND FROGS
- XXIII ABOUT THE STARS
- XXIV COMETS
- XXV ABOUT CHOLERA
- XXVI SEA-BREEZES, MOUNTAIN AIR, AND OZONE
- XXVII OXYGEN GAS FOR ATHLETES AND OTHERS
- XXVIII SPARROWS, TROUT, AND SELECTIVE BREEDING
- XXIX THE FEEBLE-MINDED
- XXX DEATH-RATES
- XXXI GOSSAMER
- XXXII THE JUMPING BEAN
- XXXIII PROTECTIVE COLOURING IN ANIMALS
- XXXIV HOP-BLIGHT
- XXXV GREEN-FLIES, PLANT-LICE, AND PARTHENOGENESIS
- XXXVI THE DEADLY PHYLLOXERA
- XXXVII CLOTHES MOTHS
- XXXVIII STONE AND WOOD BORERS
- XXXIX CHRISTMAS FARE
- XL THE ORIGIN OF OPIUM
- XLI THE MOST ANCIENT MEN
- XLII THE CAVE-MEN’S SKULLS
- XLIII MORE ABOUT THE NEANDER MEN
- INDEX
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